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An image reviewed by the U.S. military shows a U.S. flag flying above a razorwire-topped fence at the Camp Six detention facility December 10, 2008 on U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

It has been impossible for the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, D.C. to find a domestic or international bank with branches in the United States to operate the bank accounts of the Cuban diplomatic missions.

In little noticed speeches given last month, President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry cryptically acknowledged the need for a new approach to Cuba, a country the U.S. has -- literally and figuratively -- waged war with for over a half-century.

I got to know Fidel Castro back in 1997. You know the guy, that larger than life, Third World comic book hero, with the Michelangelo, Zeusian beard, the burnished, acacian savannah face, with his Groucho Marx cheroot, as big as a Coney Island footlong, protruding from his charismatic and wise-beyond-his-experiences smile.

Judy Gross, wife of Alan Gross, walks as she is interviewed before an event to mark his fourth year in prison in Cuba, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013, in Lafayette Park across from the White House in Washington.

Most Cubans were born under the punishments and conditions of the blockade exercised for more than half a century by the United States against the residents of the neighbouring little island.

On November 12th, the three of us traveled twelve hours by bus from Havana to reach HolguA n, site of the 9th International Colloquium for the Freedom of the Five.

As we have mentioned here every month when independent organizations on the island release the numbers of politically motivated arrests in Cuba, this is the true measure of the Castro dictatorship's "reforms."

In Castro's Cuba there is no greater crime than the belief that you have the right to think and express yourself freely.

The secret network of black site prisons across Europe that the CIA used to interrogate terror suspects is getting a rare public hearing Tuesday at Europe's human rights court.

Alan Gross was arrested in Havana on Dec. 3, 2009, for his work on a semi-covert US program promoting political change on the island.

The United States called on Monday for the immediate release of an American contractor jailed for the past four years in Cuba, saying his continued captivity on the communist-ruled island was "gravely disappointing."

The United States called on Monday for the immediate release of an American contractor jailed for the past four years in Cuba, saying his continued captivity on the communist-ruled island was "gravely disappointing."

Taliban and al-Qaeda detainees sit in a holding area while being guarded by military police at Camp X-Ray at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during in-processing, on January 11, 2002.

The Ministry of Truth in Havana reports that 49 buildings have been seriously damaged by a recent rainstorm and also confirms that two buildings have collapsed, killing two people.

Havana, Cuba, November 2013, www.cubanet.org - In Cuba there exists no consumer society.

Two years ago, U.S. Customs and Border Projection gave Key West the green light to resume flights to and from Cuba.

A report from Marti News on the increasing repression against dissidents by the supposedly reformed totalitarian apartheid dictatorship of the Castro family: f the 25 human rights activists arrested last Tuesday in Palma Soriano, Victor Campa, Pedro Campa, and Yerolandis Calderin, all members of the opposition organization Patriotic Union of Cuba, ... (more)

They were heckled and called slaves of a communist state when they first landed, but in the poorest corners of Brazil the arrival of 5,400 Cuban doctors is being welcomed as a godsend.

'Double agents' that the CIA allegedly hired from among the ranks of Guantanamo inmates would not be able to return to their home countries without deep suspicion being cast on them, former Pentagon Security Analyst Michael Maloof told RT.